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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Women are better at distinguishing colors, particularly in the blue and green range of the spectrum. Men excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discriminating details at a distance. The difference in men's vision apparently comes from how visual neurons develop in a high testosterone environment.

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Interesting. I do wonder how broad the deviation is within each gender, though, as well as how much overlap there is between the genders. Does the article speak to either of those questions? I imagine so...

Very interesting. Men and women probably do see things somewhat differently, simply because we are different. I can't help but wonder about the possibility of unaccounted for rogue variables, IQ, age, vision, fitness, etc., in the pool of subjects that might account for the differences in discernment and perception, perhaps more than gender does. - mp

That is interesting. I've recently theorized that my artistic endeavors have somehow affected my vision. I think my brain is filling in a lot of details that my eyes can't really see. I seem to be able to make out objects in the distance pretty well until it's something that is hard to differentiate, like similarly shaped letters for instance, becoming blurry when distinct ones become clear at the same distance.

Intersting! I've often wondered why my husband (we are both artists) does not see subtle blue-green hue shifts, but can see an animal twitch it's ear 1/4 mile away in the trees. As a side note, colors do not look the same in both of my eyes, so I guess each person sees colors a bit differently from someone else.

This is something we've touched on briefly in my Educational Psychology class in my grad program. Apparantly, based on skills developed way back in our hunter-gatherer days, boys and girls have a predisposition to potentially perform better in different areas of study. There's a theory in Linguistic Anthropology that women, as socially-based creatures, invented language, and as such, often perform better in Language and History related fields, whereas men, as the hunters and trackers often perform better in fields such as engineering and mathematics. Apparantly, the old stereotypes may indeed have some basis in science after all! Of course, this isn't all inclusive as everyone knows, but it was definitely interesting to learn about.